I use USAnian for this reason

I have this on a cheapass DVD I’ve never opened! I hope it plays

Eewwwwwwww!!!!!

Oh whew, I thought I had missed the point after all these years! I remember the moral lessons, but I already was a fluent reader by that time

Wait, is that what those books were for? I loved Serendipity!

Iain Banks dials in the Last Lazy Gun

Calling on theshitpostcalligrapher , and is the a shitpost marginalia-ner, because I Have A Vision

I can hardly wait for someone to put a lens flare into a marginalia

Actually, that would take some skill

…actually? That would be hilarious

And also take skill.

Are we getting into the part of the cycle where we introduce flaws to prove no shenanigans?

..and then shenanigans get around the flaws, and…

Or he follows people online who have read that much and talk about it. If he’s read one whole one it was when he was very young and he didn’t get it and hasn’t since

Is he married to a lululemon wine mom who’s going to No Kings rallies and yelling shame at ICE at Home Depot on Instagram?

worst guy great point meme dot jpeg, but Starship Troopers (the book) had a pretty good start on this concept

Also, bring back civics class

The closest we come to is stuff like Teach For America, or the PSLF, where you get a bit knocked off your student loans after the fact. I’m thinking of a broader scheme that front-loads the education deal on signup. And a pension if you stick it out for 20 years

this is a situation where it's important to have empathy with your enemy, so that we can understand how to use that to hurt them even more

because our side won't need to feel guilt about dragging these men from their families and imprisoning them, when we do that. we will know they deserve to cry.